watchOS 7 Battery Drain

Same issue after new update. Now it doesn't even last a day. Series 5 Apple Watch - before update, I would have 30% or more, even with my hour workout!! What the heck is going on here!! Now it is 4:30pm and I am getting low battery warnings and it is at 10%. FIX THE ISSUE PLEASE

I think I may have found a fix or at least a temporal fix. Please unpair and repair using your iphone watch app, you may select a backup when repairing. I tried doing it and I think it is not as good as before, but I get me trough my day with enough battery to get home at night.

I received my Apple Watch 6 today and so far it is losing about 4% an hour versus the 12% an hour I was seeing on my 5 after the Watch OS 7 update. So I think it is definitely an issue with the upgrade path. Unpairing and pairing is probably going to be the solution for those that upgraded.

I did the same this morning (5am EST) It’s still draining faster than I’m accustomed to but I’m not at 15-20% like I was by 5-6 pm Is sitting at 54% after mostly being at my desk and an hour of exercise in the afternoon.

Same here. Series 4; not cellular. I used to be able to play a round of golf using GolfShot and still have around 55% by the time I got home. I’m prompted for power reserve a little more than halfway through the round.

I saw that all apps were set for background refresh, I thought I turned most all of them on. Luckily, I can try again tomorrow.

I’m trying the unpair re-pair method and I can’t get it to work. When I begin the pairing process it says it is signing into my account but it never does. It just sits there spinning it’s wheel of death for an hour and a half before I cancelled it. Anyone else having this issue?

I'm having this issue as well; having to charge 2x per day at minimum. One thing that I've noted is that the location services indicator is on virtually all the time (swipe up on Watch. solid purple arrow is present upper right above WiFi button) I'm not working out or even moving much and something is constantly hitting loc services. i can ;literally watch the power %age drop.

Series 4 Nike. no [power drain issues noted prior to update to OS7. Battery health is rated at 100% by the Watch app. Not sure how long that'll hold up with this constant charging requirement.

Unpairing and re-pairing from the backup seems to have fixed my issue. Last 3 days watch was dead by this time of day. At 47% as of right now, and used it hiking etc today. All background app refreshing is still on, hand washing timer is off.

Yes this is very frustrating

updated my watch this morning went for a walk at lunch and got a low power warning 30 mins after I finished

luckily I have a spare charger at work

Normally last all day after charging it overnight

FIX this please !!!!

You can fix this yourself. Although the problem should not be there in the first place.

For some unpairing and pairing again has worked. I suggest that and then afterwards turn the turn the power off first on the IPhone and then on the Watch. Wait 5 minutes then switch on the iPhone. When it has fully loaded switch on the Watch. My watch is absolutely fine after this. If anything the battery seemed to last longer yesterday than it used to for a normal day including having the hand washing reminder running although I don’t have the 20 second watch timer running.

@Dgraugh

no, you “fixed” it with a sugar pill.

this is released software. Not a beta.

based on this thread, there is an issue. don’t attack us because of this slop.

Many owners/users aren’t willing to take steps to solve for Apple’s sloppy QA.

just great that the Apple Stores are closed - between this and poorly assembled (Vietnam production) products, something is rotten in the State of Denmark.

If the fix hasn’t worked for you-

it might sound dumb, like when someone says ‘have you tried switching it off an on again’ , but be sure you are actually unpairing the watch from the iphone rather than just turning off it’s connection to the phone and reconnecting again. If you don’t have to frame the phone camera over the swirly galaxy thing on the watch face then you haven’t unpaired it.

If you did that and restored from your latest back-up rather than set up as a new watch and it still doesn’t make a difference to the battery you might need to try setting it up as a new watch.

i think if that still doesn’t work at least you’d have the back-ups there

Exact same problem as mentioned above with my series 5. Battery dying at an alarming rate. Usually left with about 25-30% of my battery left at end of day, even on the most active days. After updating to WatchOS 7, I am left with about 6%, or else it dies and I have to charge before end of day. Huge problem — please fix!

This solution worked for my iPhone11 pro/Watch5(no cell)/Watch3(cell). I have two watches. The drain on Watch5 was horrible. The drain on Watch3 was not as much.

After updating the iPhone to iOS14, as with ANY Apple update, you must power down then up. Apple updates never seem to work right until after the power cycle anyway. I forgot to do this initially.

Unpair Watch5 and re-pair. I started with 76% battery and ended with 50% battery so putting on a charger might be wise. I didn’t. You won’t lose any data or exercise metrics. Make sure you have a recent backup. I have automatic backups so I had a recent backup.

After monitoring it for 2 days it appears the battery on Watch5 is back to normal. I have handwashing and animated emojis on also.

I was going to unpair/re-pair Watch3 BUT the battery on that seems back to normal after the above steps.

Conclusion: I do not know if it was the power cycles or the pair/re-pair or both that fixed the problem. I suspect the problem may be in iPhone since the Watch3 battery seems back to normal without unpair/re-pairing after I did the Watch5.

I did the unpair & re-pair using a backup. Did not fix the issue.

I did a unpair and a new setup. Did not fix the issue.

I disabled podcast syncing, turned off app background refresh, basically anything that would chew up resources short of being just a watch. I have been up for an hour and I can already see my battery draining very quickly again.